Boot or shoe



(N0 Model.)

A. SEAVER.

BOOT 0R SHOE.

Patented Mar. 24, 1885.

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AUGUSTUS SEAVER, OF BOSTON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO CHARLES CURTIS, OF NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOOT OR SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 314,302, dated March 24, 1885.

Application Bled January 19. 18785. (Xo model.)

.T0 all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, AUGUSTUS SnAvnn, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Boots and Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide certain improvements in boots and shoes whereby the metallic fastenings used in securing the upper to the inner sole in lasting are prevented from projecting above the inner surface ofsaid sole; and it consists in a boot or shoe having its inner sole channeled on its outer surface to form an inwardly-projecting iiap, and the upper secured to said iap only by the lasting-tacks or other metallic fastenings used in lasting, the peculiar form of the ap enabling it to be raised to allow a metallic clinchingplate to be inserted under it for the purpose of turning the'points of the lasting-tacks, While the location of the flap on the outer surface of the inner -sole enables the clinching-plates to be easily removed, all of which I will now proceed to describe.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specication, Figure 1 represents a view of the outer surface of the inner sole. Fig. 2 represents a section on linea x, Fig. l. Fig. 3 represents a transverse section of the completed boot or shoe.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the iigures.

In the drawings, a represents the upper and b the inner sole.

In Carr-ying out my invention I channel the outer surface of the inner sole to form a flap, c, the attached portion of which is near the edge of the sole, so that the free edge extends inwardly toward the center of the sole. This form of the flap and its location on the outer surface of the inner sole enable it to be raised to receive metallic clinchingplates f f, to be used for clinching the lasting-tacks t or other metallic fastenings.

I am aware that au inner sole has been channeled on its inner surface to receive clinching-plates which turn the points of the lasting` tacks and prevent them from passing above the inner surface of the inner sole.

I am also aware that an inner sole has been channeled to form an inwardly projecting iiap.

My invention is therefore confined to aboot or shoe having the outer surface of the inner sole channeled to form aliap which projects inwardly from the edge of the sole, and the upper secured to said Hap only by tacks or other metallic fastenings clinched between the flap andthe body of the inner sole. The arrangement of the flap enables the clinchingplates to be more easily removed from the Hap than when the latter is formed on the inner surface of the sole. The plates can also be removed directly after using, so that the necessity of removing the boot or shoe from the last is avoided. It will not be necessary, therefore, to provide a large number of clinching-plates, as the plates do not have to remain in the sole until the boot or shoe is removed from the last, as is the case when the flap is formed on the inner surface.

A boot or shoe having an inwardly-project ing flap on the outer surface of the inner sole, and the upper secured to said flap only by metallic fastenings passed through the edge ofthe upper and the Hap, and clinched between the liap and the main portion of the inner sole, as set fort-h.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 10th day of January, 1885.

AUGUSTUS snAvnR.

Witnesses:

H. BROWN, C. F. BROWN. 

